seeking Seattle transportative enlightenment

[calimac]

The Potlatch web page says that "the handy new light rail ... doesn't go quite as far as the Hotel."

And the light rail's web page shows the line going only as far as the Westlake station, which is at Fourth and Pine.

Google Maps, however, appears to show light rail continuing up Westlake Avenue as far as the lake and then turning east, with the last station at Fairview and Ward.

However, the light rail project website shows an under-construction extension going not in that direction at all, but heading up Pine towards Capitol Hill.

Is the Google Maps extension a phantom, or what?, and will I get in trouble with all the Google apologists again if I suggest that their maps are not perfect in every way?

Comments

[wild-irises.livejournal.com]

I'm told that there's a planned extension of the light rail to the U district, but multiple years away.

I was afraid of the bus tunnel for a while, but I've come to love it.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

I linked to the page about that extension; it's going to the U-district via the top of Capitol Hill, and apparently they're digging the tunnel now.

I'd be more comfortable with the tunnel if I spent more time in Seattle and using transit. But the gap between the intensive use I made of it while living there and the very limited since then is large.